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And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. Adam and Eve
Genesis Chapter 2: Verse 3
"Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether man or animal."
Exodus Chapter 13: Verse 2
you are to give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.
Exodus Chapter 13: Verse 12
And the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes
Exodus Chapter 19: Verse 10
Even the priests, who approach the LORD, must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them."
Exodus Chapter 19: Verse 22
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Exodus Chapter 20: Verse 11
Tell all the skilled men to whom I have given wisdom in such matters that they are to make garments for Aaron, for his consecration, so he may serve me as priest.
Exodus Chapter 28: Verse 3
After you put these clothes on your brother Aaron and his sons, anoint and ordain them. Consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.
Exodus Chapter 28: Verse 41
and put headbands on them. Then tie sashes on Aaron and his sons. The priesthood is theirs by a lasting ordinance. In this way you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
Exodus Chapter 29: Verse 9
"Take from this ram the fat, the fat tail, the fat around the inner parts, the covering of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh. (This is the ram for the ordination.)
Exodus Chapter 29: Verse 22
After you take the breast of the ram for Aaron's ordination, wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your share.
"Consecrate those parts of the ordination ram that belong to Aaron and his sons: the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented.
This is always to be the regular share from the Israelites for Aaron and his sons. It is the contribution the Israelites are to make to the LORD from their fellowship offerings.
"Aaron's sacred garments will belong to his descendants so that they can be anointed and ordained in them.
The son who succeeds him as priest and comes to the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place is to wear them seven days.
"Take the ram for the ordination and cook the meat in a sacred place.
At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.
They are to eat these offerings by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no one else may eat them, because they are sacred.
And if any of the meat of the ordination ram or any bread is left over till morning, burn it up. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
"Do for Aaron and his sons everything I have commanded you, taking seven days to ordain them.
Exodus Chapter 29: Verses 26 - 35
"Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so they may serve me as priests.
Exodus Chapter 30: Verse 30
Then Moses said, "You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day."
Exodus Chapter 32: Verse 29
These, then, are the regulations for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering and the fellowship offering,
Leviticus Chapter 7: Verse 37
He then presented the other ram, the ram for the ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head.
Leviticus Chapter 8: Verse 22
Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar on top of the burnt offering as an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made to the LORD by fire.
He also took the breast,Moses' share of the ordination ram,and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood from the altar and sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments and on his sons and their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments and his sons and their garments.
Moses then said to Aaron and his sons, "Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread from the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons are to eat it.'
Then burn up the rest of the meat and the bread.
Do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for your ordination will last seven days.
Leviticus Chapter 8: Verses 28 - 33
The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments
Leviticus Chapter 16: Verse 32
" 'The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt or tear his clothes.
Leviticus Chapter 21: Verse 10
Those were the names of Aaron's sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.
Numbers Chapter 3: Verse 3
Even if his own father or mother or brother or sister dies, he must not make himself ceremonially unclean on account of them, because the symbol of his separation to God is on his head.
Throughout the period of his separation he is consecrated to the LORD.
" 'If someone dies suddenly in his presence, thus defiling the hair he has dedicated, he must shave his head on the day of his cleansing,the seventh day.
Then on the eighth day he must bring two doves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
The priest is to offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement for him because he sinned by being in the presence of the dead body. That same day he is to consecrate his head.
He must dedicate himself to the LORD for the period of his separation and must bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. The previous days do not count, because he became defiled during his separation.
Numbers Chapter 6: Verses 7 - 12
All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the LORD and must go into his treasury."
Joshua Chapter 6: Verse 19
Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some idols and installed one of his sons as his priest.
Judges Chapter 17: Verse 5
Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.
Judges Chapter 17: Verse 12
he sent his son Joram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Joram brought with him articles of silver and gold and bronze.
King David dedicated these articles to the LORD, as he had done with the silver and gold from all the nations he had subdued:
2 Samuel Chapter 8: Verses 10 - 11
Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places.
1 Kings Chapter 13: Verse 33
for the gold work and the silver work, and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now, who is willing to consecrate himself today to the LORD ?"
1 Chronicles Chapter 29: Verse 5
But didn't you drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.
2 Chronicles Chapter 13: Verse 9
They confronted him and said, "It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the LORD God."
2 Chronicles Chapter 26: Verse 18
Then Hezekiah said, "You have now dedicated yourselves to the LORD. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the LORD." So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams and two hundred male lambs,all of them for burnt offerings to the LORD.
The animals consecrated as sacrifices amounted to six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep and goats.
2 Chronicles Chapter 29: Verses 31 - 33
The men of Israel and Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things dedicated to the LORD their God, and they piled them in heaps.
2 Chronicles Chapter 31: Verse 6
After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred feasts of the LORD, as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the LORD.
Ezra Chapter 3: Verse 5
Know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD will hear when I call to him.
Psalms Chapter 4: Verse 3
For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; thus they will dedicate it.
Ezekiel Chapter 43: Verse 26
"Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron; I will give you hoofs of bronze and you will break to pieces many nations." You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
Micah Chapter 4: Verse 13
For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.
Hebrews Chapter 7: Verse 28
by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verse 20
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